he's also heading for battle ground nevada. also to battle ground colorado before he does a whole lot of work tomorrow in ohio. you look at those poll numbers and it's clear both campaigns have more work to do to try to convince voters that they should be president for the next four years. guys, back to you. >> steve: mike emmanuel live in wisconsin. it's interesting, it sounds at this point like the romney camp is trying to withstand the -- expand the electoral map. at this hour, now the romney campaign is putting up ads in minnesota and new mexico and extraordinarily, they've actually got t.v. ads on the air in detroit, which i'm sure the president of the united states figured he had in the bag. >> gretchen: as well as probably pennsylvania. these are all states that are still too early to call as far as the swing states. many of them are within the margin of error within the polling right now. could it all come down to this early voting? karl rove breaks out his white board and his marker and gets into the number crunching a